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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.
Plot
Flashback
Figurative Language
Blank Verse
2. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.
Theme
Folklore
Myth
Allusion
3. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Enjambment
Character
Narrator
Lyric Poem
4. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
Internal Conflict
Motif
Dramatic Irony
Denouement
5. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Theme
Lyric Poem
Hyperbole
Rhyme
6. A three-line stanza.
Audience
Tercet
Assonance
Aubade
7. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.
Onomatopoeia
Understatement
Apostrophe
Symbol
8. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.
Complication
Falling Meter
Exposition
Symbolism
9. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Nonfiction
Allusion
Aside
10. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Paradox
Understatement
Scenes
Falling Meter
11. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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12. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Foot
Quatrain
Hyperbole
Epiphany
13. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.
Solioquy
Suspense
Dialect
1st Person
14. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.
Narrator
Pyrrhic
Sestina
Villanelle
15. The time and place of a story or play.
Setting
Allusion
Convention
Nonfiction
16. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Internal Conflict
Couplet
Dramatic Irony
Lyric Poem
17. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Persona
Literal Language
Metonymy
Structure
18. The conversation of characters in a literary work.
Dialogue
Simile
Sestet
Falling Action
19. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
Symbol
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Aphorism
Folklore
20. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Antagonist
Synecdoche
Allusion
Parody
21. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.
Antagonist
Ballad
Epiphany
Folklore
22. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Subplot
Falling Meter
Situational Irony
Point of View
23. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.
Falling Meter
Legend
Ballad
Personification
24. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.
Theme
Elision
Comic Relief
Style
25. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Onomatopoeia
Tercet
Octave
Aphorism
26. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Understatement
Voice
Fiction
Exposition
27. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Simile
Alliteration
Dialogue
Spondee
28. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Catharsis
Scenes
Alliteration
Metaphor
29. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.
Stanza
Solioquy
Complication
Elegy
30. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
Subject
Satire
Climax
Allegory
31. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Sonnet
Antagonist
Metaphor
Aubade
32. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Irony
Repetition
Falling Action
Solioquy
33. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Internal Conflict
Climax
Sonnet
Complication
34. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Denouement
Rhyme
Dialect
Trochee
35. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Closed Form
Figurative Language
Character
Mood
36. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.
Apostrophe
Folklore
Voice
Diction
37. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Irony
Epigram
Rising Action
Exposition
38. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Cliche
Parody
Comic Relief
Pyrrhic
39. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Oxymoron
Epigram
Audience
Analogy
40. A short saying with a moral.
Paradox
Couplet
Nonfiction
Aphorism
41. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
1st Person
Act
Parable
Structure
42. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Cliche
Falling Meter
Complication
Octave
43. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Closed Form
Recognition
Aphorism
Epigram
44. The main character of a literary work.
Personification
Plot
Protagonist
Symbol
45. What a story or play is about.
Fiction
Subject
Subplot
Elision
46. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Folklore
Parable
Point of View
Assonance
47. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.
Fiction
Oxymoron
Rhythm
Audience
48. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Elision
Verbal Irony
Act
External Conflict
49. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Spondee
Aubade
Author's Purpose
Symbol
50. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Tercet
Quatrain
Villanelle
Style
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